Waldemar Young
Waldemar Young ( born July 1, 1878 in Salt Lake City, Utah; † August 30, 1938 in Hollywood, California ) was an American screenwriter who was nominated once for an Oscar for best screenplay.
Life
Young, grandson of the leader of belonging to the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Brigham Young Saints, began his career as an editor at the daily newspaper The Salt Lake Herald and began studying at Stanford University, however, he did not graduate. He then worked as a writer and theater editor at newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner.
His career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood, he began in 1917 at Universal Studios, where he worked until 1919. In 1917, he wrote for the silent film The Car of Chance by William Franklyn Farnum with Worthington, Agnes Vernon and Helen Wright for the first time the story and the scenario for a film. Later he worked for film production companies Famous Players - Lasky as Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer ( 1924-1929 ) and Paramount Pictures (1930 and 1932-1936 ). During the time at the Paramount Pictures, among others, four productions were directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
At the Academy Awards in 1936 he was nominated along with Ahmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, and indeed for the adventure film Bengali ( The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935) by Henry Hathaway with Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone and Richard Cromwell. The screenplay was based on the novel by Francis Yeats - Brown.
Young, who died as a result of pneumonia, worked until his death in the producing eighty films. Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for the adventure film The Test Pilot ( 1938) by Victor Fleming Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy with and died just four months after the premiere on 16 April 1938.